One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking her how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over." Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!" The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the Conservative Party".
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Thats a good one and very true as well.
There must be a happy medium between studying so hard and morbidly to get good grades that there is no time for legitamate fun and joy or any type of a normal life (as per that woman), and going through university in a half-drunken stupor, always partying, and studying so little that one gets poor marks (as per that other woman).
In fact, over-studying can warp one's mind, in that an unhealthy life-style can cause one to lose touch with reality, as is indicated in her acceptance of socialism (good marks do not discount that, since so often, a good grade is merely an indicator of one's agreement with the professor on his beliefs).
With socialism, there must be a vast beuracracy and system of control to ensure the wealth distribution sought - as a result, everything gets totally screwed up, as everything works in an illogical way, as nothing is available that people really want or need, and the system does nothing but run you around if you try to get any service for anything.
The reason being is that in socialism all common sense, personal experience of the common man, charity, sense of justice, legitamate freedom, and proper self-interest are taken out of the equation - as a result, all wealth creation in the proper sense is quenched.
Besides, socialism works on false premise - that being that wealth is a fixed pie in which one having more automatically means that someone else has less (as is indicated in the socialist platform that heavily taxing the rich is necessary for social justice) - but the truth is, wealth is a dynamic reality, in which unlimited potential of wealth creation exists, which is shut down by any application of socialism, leading to real poverty, along with a host of other injustices inflicted by the masters of society who think they know best.
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